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Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy Audiobook, by Yalman Onaran Play Audiobook Sample

Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy Audiobook

Zombie Banks: How Broken Banks and Debtor Nations Are Crippling the Global Economy Audiobook, by Yalman Onaran Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Pete Larkin Publisher: Gildan Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781663704276

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

34:17 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

16:14 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

26:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

This book will address and answer the key questions...What's a zombie bank? When losses of a financial institution exceed its paid-in capital, it's insolvent. Thanks to systemic deregulation   in the last 30 years and cheap credit availability, banks in the U.S. and Europe borrowed more and more on a thin layer of equity, funding the explosive growth of their housing markets through securitized mortgages and piled many of the mortgage-related securities on their balance sheets. Why do we keep them alive? For many of these banks, having become too big to fail is their blessing. The global financial system has become so interconnected that the failure of one giant bank like Citi would have repercussions far and wide. How does that hurt economic recovery?  The banks have been making profits thanks to this interest rate subsidy at the expense of taxpayers, pensioners and other savers. Yet their hidden losses are so big that it will take them many more years to replenish their capital to the necessary level. So they need to keep hoarding all the cash they make to themselves, and cannot make new loans. That hurts market liquidity, which slows and flattens growth.  What needs to be done? The U.S. and the EU need to face the harsh reality in the face and accept the bitter medicine rather than push the problems out to the next decade, which will be lost if they do so.  Effectively, austerity measures.

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About Pete Larkin

Pete Larkin has narrated dozens of audiobook titles, won five Earphones Awards, and been a finalist in 2012 for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has been praised for his expert ability to speak in multiple accents. He is also an on-camera host and accomplished voice-over artist for hundreds of commercials and promos for a variety of companies, corporations, and governmental agencies. He was the public address announcer for the New York Mets and has worked as a radio jockey in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.